WEBVTT DOWN ALLMORNING.POLICE SWARMING THE AREA.LET'S GET OUT TO NEWSCNETER 5'SKATIE THOMPSON WHO LIVE FOR USIN SAUGUS.KATIE?KATIE: DOUG, EIGHT HOURS INTOTHE SEARCH AND POLICE TELL USTHEY HAVE ARRESTED A 16-YEAR-OLDMALE.THEY DID NOT FIND HIM IN THEMALL.THEY ARRESTED HIM IN EVERETT.THERE HAS BEEN A LARGE POLICEPRESENCE AT THE MALL.THEY WERE SCANNING THE PERIMETERWITH CANINES.POLICE INITIALLY BELIEVED TO BESUSPECT WAS INSIDE THE MALL.THAT IS WHY THEY BROUGHT AREGIONAL SWAT TEAM IN HOURS AGO.THEY WERE ON SCENE ON SO A SHORTWHILE AGO.THE LEAST TELLING US IT WAS AMETHODICAL AND SLOW PROCESS.THEY BELIEVED THE SUSPECT HADSTOLEN A RIFLE AND AMMUNITIONFROM THE DICK'S SPORTING GOODSAFTER REPORTING A BURGLARY THISMORNING.THEY SHOWED UP AND NOTICED AWINDOW WAS SMASHED IN AND THEYNOTICED A RIFLE MISSING.THEY SAW THE SUSPECT BRIEFLYINSIDE THE STORE, BUT THEY LOSTSIGHT OF HIM.WE HAVE ALSO JUST LEARNED THEREWERE DIFFERENT OFFICERS THAT RANIN TO BE SUSPECT IN THE PARKINGLOT.THE SUSPECT WAS ABLE TO GETAWAY.POLICE SAY IT TOOK HOURS TOTRACK DOWN VIDEO INSIDE THEMALL.THAT IS HOW THEY WERE ABLE TOCONFIRM THE SUSPECT LEFT OF THEBUILDING.WE ARE STILL LEARNING THEDETAILS.SUBSEQUENTLY -- HOW THEY WEREABLE TO SUBSEQUENTLY FIND HIMAND ARREST HIM IN EVERETT.NO WEAPON HAS BEEN RECOVERED.NO AMMUNITION EITHER.THE SUSPECT HAD BAGS OFAMMUNITION.AND THERE WAS A SECOND SWEEP OFTHE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THEMALL.WE TALKED TO A MOTHER ANDDAUGHTER NEARBY.WE JUST PULLED UP AND SAWTHERE'S A BUNCH OF POLICE.THERE WAS A LITTLE CONCERNED.THERE'S A LOT OF POLICE THAT,YOU KNOW, CAN GET HURT.DO NOT KNOW WHAT THIS GUY ISTHINKING.JUST WHAT I AM NERVOUS IN THEHIGH SCHOOL IS JUST DOWN THESTREET.KATIE: THE HIGH SCHOOL ANDMIDDLE SCHOOL ARE NEARBY.THEY WERE BRIEFLY PUT INTOSHELTERING PLAY SITUATIONS.WE HAVE BEEN TOLD BY OUR MEDIAPARTNERS SOME PARENTS WERECOMING TO PICK UP THEIR KIDS AWERE SO CONCERNED.THAT HAS NOW BEEN LIFTED.THE MALL IS EXPECTED TO REOPENSHORTLY.DICK'S SPORTING GOODS WILLREMAIN CLOSED.A 16-YEAR-OLD MALE ARRESTED INEVERETT AFTER BREAKING INTO ADICK'S SPORTING GOODS STEALING ARIFLE AND AMMUNITION.

Teen in custody after breaking into mall, stealing gun, police say

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Updated: 1:33 PM EDT Jun 19, 2017

SAUGUS, Mass. —

A teenager was taken into custody after breaking into a mall in Massachusetts and stealing a gun from a Dick's Sporting Goods store, police said.

Police were called to the Square One Mall in Saugus just after 4 a.m. Monday, where they said a person broke into the Dick’s Sporting Goods store.

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The person, who police later identified as a 16-year-old boy, was spotted on the property and was considered “armed and dangerous.”

The teen smashed a window of the sporting goods store, entered the building and was able to steal a gun, police said.

“A shattered window found at the Dicks Sporting Goods. Police saw the suspect, noticed a gun was stolen and then lost sight of him. Another officer made contact with him outside -- not knowing it was the suspect,” Revere Police Chief Capt. Dominic DiMella said.

Police and a SWAT team responded to the incident. Officers and K-9 units scanned the perimeter of the mall, and a State Police helicopter searched from overhead.

The teen fled the area and was apprehended in Everett, police said. The weapon has not been located.

No one was allowed to enter the mall during the search.

"We just pulled up and saw there was a whole bunch of police and everyone was giving us word of what was going on,” shopper Lisa Fuller said.

“I'm nervous, and the high school is just down the street,” shopper Heather Hill said.

The mall is near the Saugus middle and high schools. The schools were briefly put into a shelter and place mode.

After a final security sweep, officials said the mall would re-open. The Dick's Sporting Goods store will remain closed.